The Story of the Teasing Monkey

by Helen Bannerman

And in the jungle below there lived a huge, fierce old lion and lioness.

Now Jacko was a very teasing monkey. He used to climb down the long trailing roots of the banyan tree, and pull the tails of all the other creatures, and then scamper up again, before they could catch him.

And he was so bold, he even pulled the tails of the lion and lioness one day.